Fox Shaped Hug Machine (Erika) @foxwitch@queer.af

always remember the reason we are socially isolating, the reason we are locked in our homes is not cause of a virus it is because nation states and capitalism have gutted, gatekept, denied healthcare, used racism to sustain their profits, spread misinformation and lies, buried reports that predicted exactly this scenario, tried to let the most vulnerable die for their profits, denied access to testing and gleefully jumped on any authoritarian power they can seize.

we need to quarantine and socially isolate, right now that's the reality. but never forget that the ruling class brought this about, covid-19 didn't need to be this way.

http://e926.net/posts/1960561
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I have a simple flowchart to understand American politics and government. it is entirely linear, so it should be easy to understand

there exists a social problem
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it gets ignored by anyone with power
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it gets worse
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someone figures out how to make money from making the problem worse
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a brain genius figures out a way to fuck the numbers so that it looks like the problem isn't as bad as it is. this is adopted as the official measure. people still lie and say that this number is better than it is.
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someone in power passes a law that makes the entrepreneur above even more filthy rich
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people's lives are miserable and many of them die due to this completely fucking preventable problem
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news breaks that this is somehow even fucking worse than anyone thought
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loop back to step 1

Lydia Brown - What I do know about covid-19

https://www.autistichoya.com/2020/03/what-i-do-know-about-covid-19.html

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. ~ Audre Lorde

Fascinating thread.

https://twitter.com/MilletIsraeli/status/1245408722236723202

<<Some of my anxious/depressed patients are feeling unexpectedly better than before - I think this is because their internal chaos matches external chaos. Says a lot about how much of mental illness is rooted in alienation from the “norm.” #mentalhealth #mentalillness
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@xnx38h apparently they're making a "parental control" dns that explicitly does not filter nazis but also explicitly filters lgbt content

the student debt crisis hits harder when you realize it is a vindictive punishment leveraged by the ruling class against the lower classes for thinking they could move upward

but seriously, why do all the far right tech billionaires like living in Democratic Party controlled states

why is the Democratic Party okay with massive amounts of homelessness along with vast and increasing concentration of wealth

why is the Democratic Party facing an insurgency from its internal left wing and fighting tooth and nail to suppress that

I wonder if there's any connection between these data points

real straightforward argument, y'all: it is absurd to charge full rent during a society-spanning pandemic that leaves your tenants out of work, particularly if you're also suspending maintenance and cleaning for the duration; that is part of the service contract with your renters and if you can't fulfill your end, they deserve a discount at the least, if not a full suspension until the end of the crisis.

governments have provisions for rent freeze compensation for this EXACT situation.

RT @crimethinc@twitter.com

When they call you an "essential worker" but force you to choose between risking your life and losing your housing, they mean they see your work as essential but your life as inessential.

Support striking #Amazon, #Instacart, and #WholeFoods workers.

http://cwc.im/workmythology

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/crimethinc/status/1245125931754233857

So in typical American fashion, hospitals are FIRING DOCTORS AND NURSES who talk about how they are not getting the equipment they need. LIKE IT'S NOT A GOT DAMN PANDEMIC GOING ON RIGHT NOW.

It's like the want people to die. This is so absurd.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/490361-hospitals-threatening-to-fire-workers-for-speaking-out-about

We made a thing. 🦹‍♀️
#QueerVillainPride #QVP

It's incredible how

1. there are these people who just murder whoever they want for no reason

2. we pay them to do this

3. we are taught as children that they are the best, safest people to summon when someone else is in trouble

4. enough people never unlearn this/never have this concept contradicted that it's entirely possible someone will call a murder squad to probably come murder you and think they're doing you a favor

Republished from: https://twitter.com/hourlyFox/status/1244851960496390144

the concept of putting oppressed people at the bottom of the priority list during crisis situations is not new. family of comrades have reported healthcare workers withholding CPR for loved ones even though no DNR (do not resuscitate order) was in place. Doctors have tried to force families to sign DNRs even though the disabled patient wanted interventional measures to be used.

Washington state can turn you away if you have congestive heart failure, lung failure, cirrhosis, or if your baseline health status is poor health or low energy.
https://nwhrn.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Scarce_Resource_Management_and_Crisis_Standards_of_Care_Overview_and_Materials-2020-3-16.pdf

Alabama doctors and nurses can refuse to treat you if you have intellectual disabilities, cystic fibrosis, HIV, cancer, or are otherwise immune compromised.
http://www.adph.org/CEP/assets/VENTTRIAGE.pdf

Tennessee has decided that they don't need to provide emergency medical care to people with multiple sclerosis, ALS, cystic fibrosis, traumatic brain injuries, or are on dialysis.
https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/documents/2016_Guidance_for_the_Ethical_Allocation_of_Scarce_Resources.pdf

this is not an exhaustive list. nor is it inclusive of all states with laws like these on the books. as a former emergency medical worker, a mass casualty incident (which is what covid-19 is) was our worst nightmare, but when obscenely rich people exist in the world, it's not that we don't have the means to treat everyone who needs it, it's that we've never prioritized society's most vulnerable people.

add to that the media's perpetuation of bigotry and profiting off the idea that certain people are less valuable than others, and things are pretty dire for those of us who are already at risk.

#xkcd 's latest #comic offers a hopeful, amusing take on society's response to #COVID19 and diseases in general, looking at the situation from the viruses' perspective: https://xkcd.com/2287/

CC @Azure - reminds me of how you might encourage folks that are worried: "We're not not trapped in here with the coronavirus. The coronavirus is trapped in here with us." :)

As powerful & important as the activism being done is, I worry that we might be falling short of supporting our disabled comrades at a crucial moment.

It's nice that society gets more accessible for those who stay home and it would be great to hold on to that,

But priority #1 for a lot of disabled people right now is 'what is doctors and policy makers consider my life not worth saving in a crisis?'.

And I don't really know how to effectively organize against that. Thoughts?

Republished from: https://twitter.com/hourlyFox/status/1244444282800558080

someone called the cops on my family for "being in violation of the shelter in place orders" 🙃 i had to explain to two very pissed off, gloved, masked cops that we weren't having a party, we live in a generational home and we're just loud people

so that's my day. fuck cops and fuck white people.